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“it would have been so stupid, Niki went on, If you would just accepted everything the way it was and just stayed where you were. At least you made an effort.”
― A Pale View of Hills
― A Pale View of Hills
“I’d like to shout down through a hole in the ceiling of time and advise the people of a hundred years ago: If you want your secrets kept, whisper them into the ear of your dearest, most trusted friend. Do not trust the keyboard and screen. If you do, we’ll know everything.”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
“The horror of that image has never diminished, but it has long ceased to be a morbid matter; as with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.”
― A Pale View of Hills
― A Pale View of Hills
“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
“Semua perempuan itu pelacur, sebab seorang istri baik-baik pun menjual kemaluannya demi mas kawin dan uang belanja, atau cinta jika itu ada.”
― Beauty Is a Wound
― Beauty Is a Wound
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